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  • Runaways Run Away From the Field

    The Runaway Groom branch of Blushing Groom (FR) had a very useful weekend. Runaway Groom's son Najran was represented by the third graded winner from his first crop when Wasted Tears took the Ouija Board Distaff Handicap (gr. IIIT). Proving herself a true daughter of her sire -- who equaled Dr. Fager's world record for a mile on dirt -- Wasted ...
    Posted to TrueNicks (Weblog) by Alan Porter 1 on 05-28-2009
  • Belmont Contest - Draynay Vs. The Blog

    It has been more than a year a half since Triple Crown Talk launched, and let me begin by thanking everyone for helping to make this the top horse racing blog on the web. I am consistently impressed at the amount of knowledge and lively discussion that comes across the board. It is much appreciated. As regular followers of this blog know all too ...
    Posted to Triple Crown Talk (Weblog) by Jason Shandler on 05-28-2009
  • A Look at Sale Yearlings, Mine That Bird, and Big Butts

    ''I like big butts and I cannot lie'' -- it's a line from an old rap song, but it's also something that seems to run constantly through the minds of yearling buyers as they look at young horses. They want big butts, big bodies, and big muscles, seeking an ideal that was made popular by Hall-of-Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas. They really don't care ...
    Posted to Hammer Time (Weblog) by macawwoman on 05-28-2009
  • Magical Day for Night of Magic

    The 2009 running of the Oaks d'Italia (Ity-II) went to the Peintre Celebre filly Night of Magic (IRE). Night of Magic is out of a mare by Platini (GER)  (by the great German sire Surumu (GER)) and from a German family that goes back to Catnip (IRE), the granddam of Nearco (ITY). Rated A++ by TrueNicks, Night of Magic has more recent ...
    Posted to TrueNicks (Weblog) by Alan Porter 1 on 05-28-2009
  • Closest Belmont Finishes

    Although the Belmont is the longest of the three Triple Crown races, it has produced some of the closest finishes. Which of these close finishes (less than a length) would you rank as the most thrilling? 1867 The filly Ruthless by a head over DeCourcey in the very first Belmont1962 Jaipur by a nose over Admirals Voyage 1965 Hail to All ...
    Posted to You Make the Call (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 05-27-2009
  • Like Father Like Son for Machiavellian, Street Cry

    The father and son team of Machiavellian and Street Cry (IRE) (TrueNicks,SRO) made their presence strongly felt in last few days. Machiavellian's daughter.Criticism (GB) (TrueNicks A+), one of three stakes winners for her sire out of Caerleon mares, took the Sheepshead Bay Stakes (gr. IIT) May 23 at Belmont Park. The granddam is the ...
    Posted to TrueNicks (Weblog) by Alan Porter 1 on 05-27-2009
  • May 5, 2009: Therapy for Thoroughbreds

    Trade Zone: Therapy for Thoroughbreds - Click Here to Download PDF By Karen Briggs Photos by Anne M. Eberhardt Perhaps Shakespeare said it best: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." The Thoroughbred world, in particular,has been slow to accept the idea that ...
  • Better Betting - by Dan Liebman

    In light of two recent episodes of wagering integrityor lack of sameit appears the industry has done little since being warned a decade ago that its infrastructure was woefully inadequate.This month, two past-posting incidents, where wagers are placed after a race has begun, have occurred. On May 16, wagering through Scientific Games on the Los ...
  • Mare Care at the Boarding Farm

    Over the Memorial weekend, I flew from Lexington up to Pennsylvania to pick up my truck and trailer and -- more importantly -- two of my mares. Back in mid-April I'd made the reverse trip:  I drove up to Ohio and dropped off one mare to be bred and continued on up to Pennsylvania to leave the second mare to be covered by another ...
    Posted to The Five-Cross Files (Weblog) by sgillies on 05-26-2009
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